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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (362002)	12/13/2007 7:48:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573850

The problem is that U.S. is losing it's manufacturing sector. That's a widely believed myth. "Between 1977 and 2005, the value of American manufacturing swelled from $1.3 trillion to an all-time record $4.5 trillion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis." Also the US manufactures 2 and a half times as much as China, and 21% of the worlds total manufacturing output (Source: U.N. Industrial Development Org) see more at Message 24128628 And manufacturing kept growing after 2005. 2006 was the all time top for manufacturing in the US (2007 data obviously isn't available yet)